11.8% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Black · State Electorate
Language in Black
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Fewer people have used a language other than English at home in Black over the last decade, falling to 11.8% in 2021. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 85.9% of residents, and only 1.2% of people speak little or no English, which is lower than most areas. Other languages are rare here, with Mandarin (1.2%), Italian (0.6%), and Arabic and Greek (0.5% each) being the most common.
1.2% ▼ -52.4%
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Black [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40003/black/topic/language